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- RARE.' No. 569,654. Patented Oct. .20, 1896.

Md/ etre/@116mg UNITED STATES PATENT .FFlCE.

ARCHIBALD YELL MCILROY AND JOSEPH LEE MGLROY, OF TOLAR, TEXAS.

RAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,654, dated October20, 1896. Appleman nea June 9,1894. sesam. 514,093. (No man.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern;

Beit lin own that we, ARCHIBALD YELL MC- ILRoY and Josnrn LEE MCILROY,citizens of the United States, residing` at Tolar, in the county of Hoodand State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Rake, of which thefollowing is a specication.

The invention is particularly related to a machine for raking loosestumps, brush, and similar trash from fields; and it consists of certainnovel features of construction and combination and arrangement ot partsthat will be more fully described hereinafter and Finally embodied inthe claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofa rake constructed after the manner of our invention; Fig. 2, ahorizontal section of the' machine; Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinalsection.

The reference-numeral 1 indicates the axle of the machine, which isformed of an iron bar provid ed. with the wooden strengtheningbeam 2.Formed in the ends of the iron bar are the journals S, upon which thecarryingwheels 4 are mounted, so that the machine will be capable ofeasy transportation. The two sections of the axle are secured to eachother by means of the yokes 5, which embrace the iron bar and areprovided with nuts 6, by which they are secured in place. These yokesare preferably three in number, and the iniddle yoke is extended upthrough the rear end ot the tongue 7 and bolted to the upper sidethereof to the end that the tongue be rigidly secured to the axle.Connected to the front ot the axle and to the sides of the tongue 7 arethe hounds or braces S, which operate to give rigidity and securencss tothe tongue 9 indicates awhit'letree which is afiixed to the tongue andto which the team is to be hitched.

Rig-idly recnred to the rear side of the axle 1 and eqnidistant fromeach other are the sections of the knuckle-joints 10, which have onesection, 1l, fixed to the axle, while the remaining sections, 12, aresimilarly secured to the transverse beam 13, whereby the beam 13 isattached to the axle, so as to be capable of swinging thereon. Formed inthe beam 13 and extending longitudinally therein are the openiu gs 14,through which the rake-teeth 15fL ass and in which thev are secured bforming the enlargements or heads 15, thereby allowing the openings 17to be formed, while the teeth are prevented from moving rearwardly bymeans of the rod 16, which passes through openings 17 in the heads orenlargements 15 and operates to hold them incapable of independentmovement.

The teeth 15 extend rearwardly and curve down to the level of theground, so as to forni devices capable of grasping and retaining thestumps and other matter with which our inachine operates. Rigidlysecured to the rear of the beam 13 and arising vertically therefrom isthe arm 1S, which is provided with the openings 19, adapted for thereception of the eye 2O of the rod 21. The rod 21 proceeds forwardlyfrom the arm 1S and is connected at its rear end to the lever 22, whichis in turn fulcrunied to the tongue 7 and provided with an edge or point25, adapted to engage with the ratchet-teeth 2%,forin ed on the bar Thebar 25 is U-shaped and secured to the tongue at its ends, so that thelever may be secured in any position on the bar. Thus by swinging thelever forward the arm 1S will be moved correspondingly and the beam 13,with its attached teeth, raised, so that the teeth will disengage theground. Rigidly secured to the upper side of the axle are the arms 26,which are bifurcated and provided to form a fulcrum for the forward endof the levers 27. The levers 27 are two in number, one for each arm 2G,and extend rearwardly from the axle to a point beyond the rear ends ofthe teeth 15.

Pivotally connected to the levers 27 are the links 2S, which extenddownwardly from the levers and are pivotally connected. to those of theteeth 15 which occur directly beneath. The purpose of these levers is topermit the teeth 15n to be raised from behind the machine, and by aperson following it. Thus it will be seen that the teeth may be raisedby two different devices, the levers 22 and 27 according to theconvenience of the operator. By reason of the particular arrangement ofthe levers L7 and 22 and the connections between said levers and therake when the lever 27 is lifted for elevating the rake the lever 22 ismoved forward, and on account of the engagement between the lever 22 andthe rack on the tongue the rake will IOO ' and are formed with the bends3l therein, whereby the front end is provided with aV rake.

be held in its raised position until released by the operator vibratingsaid lever 22 rearward. The rake may thus be manipulated either by theoperator in his seat on the machine or by an attendant walking behindthe Formed in the wooden portion of the axle and extendinglongitudinally therein are the openings 29, which are preferably four innunibenand which are Vrespectively provided for the reception of thearms 30.

The arms 30 are one for each opening 29,

straight portion 32, adapted to lit into the opening 29, and the rearend formed with a straight portion 33,Which lies below the plane of thebeam 13 and projects horizontally to a point near the'rear end of theteeth 15a. The function of the arms 30 is to keep the matter being rakedVfrom becoming entangled in the teeth 15a. .Thus by their means thebrush, stumps, dac., are kept from engagement with the teeth at theirupper lside and allowed to engage only at the rear ends, so that uponraising the teeth the brush, duc., will be free to slide out frornthestraight portions 331mobstructed.

34 indicates a seat which is secured to the axle and upon which thedriver of the rake should be seated.

In the use of our machine the team is hitched, as usual, to the pole ortongue and the `machine drawn over the ground toV be cleared, as in theusual rake, whereupon the Y debris Vwill be gathered and carried withthe the aXle, a rackfor engaging and holding said second lever, andconnection between said second lever and the rake, whereby the rockingof the horizontalv lever will effect a rock- 'ing of the second lever,causing the latter to lock with the rack and uphold the rake,substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaffixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ARCHIBALD YELL yMCILROY. JOSEPH LEE MOILROY. Y Witnesses:

H. H. COOPER, H. M. MCILROY.

